Sonia Delaunay famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.
-- Sonia Delaunay

#Art #Gaps #Painting
Colour is the skin of the world,
-- Sonia Delaunay

#Skins #World #Colour
I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.
-- Sonia Delaunay

#Creativity #Creation #Disappear
About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings.
-- Sonia Delaunay

#Son #Ideas #House
It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.
-- Sonia Delaunay

#Light #Dancer #Snapshots
ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light
-- Sonia Delaunay

#Light #Poetry #Noon
In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.
-- Sonia Delaunay

#Art #Moving #Color
The sun rises at midnight.
-- Sonia Delaunay

#Sun #Midnight #Sun Rise
One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.
-- Sonia Delaunay

#Color #Appreciate #Influence

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away
Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.
Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.
It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.

Sonia Delaunay famous quotes

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